The Who have added a second show at Chicago's House of Blues as part of their effort to raise money for the Windy City's Maryville Academy, a facility that provides housing and support to abused and neglected children. The new show will happen on Friday, Nov. 12 and will also feature Eddie Vedder (backed by Olympia, Washington's C Average) as the opening act. "What works for me with Eddie," says Townshend of his ongoing relationship with Vedder, "what sparks, stimulates and challenges, is his recognition that my connection with him, and the power of my work to affect and help him, comes from a part of me that is very frail ... Eddie somehow manages to look vulnerable, proud, complete and ready-for-more all at once. It is a powerful rock condition that not everyone can pull off." Tickets for the added show go on sale Saturday, Oct. 16 and will be distributed via lottery. There is a two-ticket maximum per person, and each one costs $300. The previously scheduled show, which is already sold out, takes place Nov. 13 ...

Saturday's NETAID benefit concerts generated 2,385,455 total web streams, with users logging on from 160 different countries, according to J. Douglas Graham of KPMG, the company that designed the NetAid Web site. The three shows -- in New Jersey, London and Geneva -- drew a total crowd of 110,000. "In terms of the total world-wide television, radio and Internet coverage, we were able to touch people two billion times," said Graham. "One of our goals from the beginning of this was to bring enormous visibility to the issue. The other was to leave behind a system that would transform the not-for-profit world, and during the event, we had 1,400 not-for-profit organizations sign up to be part of that system." He said figures from donations made during the concert should be available by next week. "We don't expect that to be huge, because we didn't ask for donations at any time during the event" . . . The RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS will rock from high atop New York City's World Trade Center on Oct. 26, playing on the 107th floor observation deck of the skyscrapers' Building 2. The show is the band's only area appearance before it jets off to Europe to continue its extensive world tour in support of Californication. The majority of tickets will be available through WXRK, the New York affiliate of K-Rock that is sponsoring the show. A select number of slots will go to RHCP fan club members, but only those who are from the New York area and have never before seen the band play live will be eligible...

The horserace is over, and after almost a year of managing themselves, the SMASHING PUMPKINS have asked OZZY OSBOURNE's wife and manager Sharon Osbourne to guide their fortunes. But before making the decision, Billy Corgan certainly shopped around, having reportedly met with Michael Ovitz of Artists Management Group; Beck and Beastie Boys manager John Silva; Jim Guerinot, who watches over Chris Cornell, the Offspring and No Doubt; Arthur Spivak, who is best known to most of us as Tori Amos's guiding light; Fiona Apple's Andy Slater; as well as Jeff Kwatinetz and Peter Katsis, who have nurtured the careers of Korn, Limp Bizkit and Orgy. "Billy talked to every manager in the industry, I think, and he liked me best," Sharon Osbourne told the Los Angeles Times. "And I can't blame him." But more importantly, will Sharon's temperamental husband be miffed because she's taking on the equally temperamental Corgan? Mrs. Osbourne says no: "He was so happy, he called Billy up and welcomed him to the family" . . .

On Nov. 23, PHISH will release a six-CD box set, which will consist of the uncut recordings of last November's back-to-back shows at the Hampton Coliseum, in Hampton, Va. Known for their diverse covers, the set will feature Phish-y versions of CHUMBAWAMBA's "Tubthumping," the BEASTIE BOYS' "Sabotage," the BEATLES' "Cry Baby Cry," as well as Phish favorites. Ready for the best part? The set is called Hampton Comes Alive ...

Shortly before his band's encore at Saturday night's San Francisco show, NO DOUBT drummer ADRIAN YOUNG walked onstage, called up his girlfriend Nina, got down on one knee and proposed. Nina accepted and the Fillmore crowd went wild. Did we mention that Young was wearing only a pair of plaid boxers? Ah, romance! ...

The final slot on TLC's upcoming tour with DESTINY'S CHILD has been filled: The string of shows will be opened by K-CI & JOJO, the duo that also comprises half of R&B outfit JODECI. The tour kicks off in Toronto on Oct. 22...

Erstwhile MOTLEY CRUE drummer TOMMY LEE turned himself in to the Guilford County Sheriff's office in Greensboro, N.C., responding to a warrant charging him with rioting and assault during a 1997 concert. He was released from custody after posting a $5,000 bond and is due in court Oct. 20...

Hard rock band SYSTEM OF A DOWN have been added as the openers on FILTER's upcoming tour. It's actually a big ol' switcheroo: You see, STAIND were originally supposed to be on the Filter tour, but had to drop off to fill a slot on the Family Values tour left vacant when LIMP BIZKIT frontman, FRED DURST had a dispute with S.O.A.D. and kicked them off the tour...
MILT JACKSON, the celebrated jazz vibraphonist whose six-decade career included stints playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, John Coltrane and the MODERN JAZZ QUARTET (for forty years), died Saturday of liver cancer at the age of seventy-six. A native of Detroit, Jackson was one of most renowned improvisers in modern music, and received a Grammy in 1969 for "That's the Way It Is." He was living in Teaneck, N.J., at the time of his death. . .

After wowing the ladies for almost a decade with his sultry soul stylings, AL GREEN bought himself a church in Memphis in 1976 and became its ordained pastor. Although he's preached from the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church's pulpit for more than twenty years, Green performed his very first concert there on Sunday. More than 650 of the faithful gathered to hear Green sing gospel tunes ...

Just when we thought MICHAEL JACKSON was turning into Ward Cleaver -- with a wife and two kids -- he and second wife Debbie Rowe Jackson (that's "Mrs. Jackson," if you're nasty) have filed for divorce. According to a statement from King of Pop spokesman Howard J. Rubenstein, "Michael and Debbie remain friends and they ask that the public respect their desire not to further comment or speculate upon the reasons for their decision." We're sure the public will be real happy to oblige, Howie. In musical Michael news, he has just finished recording tracks for his upcoming album (due next year) with WYCLEF JEAN ...

If you're not convinced that MARILYN MANSON deserves the epithet "shock-rocker," you'll want to take a gander at the new home video Demystifying the Devil, an Unauthorized Biography of Marilyn Manson, which reportedly includes scandalous footage of the perennially provocative Manson back when his band, then called Marilyn Manson and the Spooky Kids, were just getting their start. According to the Web site peddling the video (www.mansonvideo.com), the ninety-minute tape includes not only interviews with Manson's former cohorts and "never before seen concert footage," but also has photos of Manson feeding a rabbit to his pet snake, and playing with his other pet snake. The vid fetches $19.95...

Fans of ELVIS PRESLEY showed their love for the King to the tune of $5 million this weekend, during an auction held at Las Vegas' MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. The hottest item was the 1956 Lincoln Continental Presley drove while dating Natalie Wood; it reportedly sold for $250,000, plus $27,000 in auction commissions. The auction was held to raise money for a transitional housing development that Presley's estate plans to erect in Peabody-Vance, the Memphis community where the Big E. and his parents once lived...

Will KORN kill Kenny? You'll just have to tune into the Oct. 27 South Park Halloween special to find out. The band are debuting their new single "Falling Away From Me" in the episode ...

She used to sing, "Do you wannabe my lover?" -- you know she did you know she did you know she did -- but in the ever changing world in which she lives in, former SPICE GIRL GERI HALLIWELL will give a try to covering PAUL McCARTNEY's James Bond theme, "Live and Let Die." Halliwell's version of the WINGS classic, recorded with a sixty-piece orchestra, will be released Nov. 1 as a B-side to her next U.K. single, "Lift Me Up" . . .

Hard rockers SEVENDUST have had to cancel several tour dates now that drummer Morgan Rose has become a daddy; his wife gave birth to a daughter, Kayla Morray Rose, last Tuesday. The band put the kibosh on its shows between Oct. 15 (in Seattle) and Oct. 24 (in Winnipeg), but will still play its next few dates (Oct. 11-14) and the shows from Oct. 26 - Nov. 3. They hope to reschedule their canceled dates later this year...

ICE CUBE and DR. DRE may go straight back to Compton. Cube told MTV that the surviving members of N.W.A. -- Cube, Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella (Eazy-E died in 1995) -- may reunite next year for a new album ...

Church is the place to be on Nov. 11 and 12. LOU REED, NICK CAVE and SONIC YOUTH's THURSTON MOORE will play Brooklyn's St. Ann's Church to raise money for folk music preservationists the Harry Smith Archives. The rest of the lineup includes WILCO's JEFF TWEEDY and JAY BENNETT, VAN DYKE PARKS, DAVID JOHANSEN and DJ SPOOKY, with more to be announced ...

BILL CRANDALL, JENNY ELISCU, RICHARD SKANSE, JAAN UHELSZKI
(October 12, 1999)